Research Article
BERTopic-Based Topic Modeling and Thematic Discovery in Long-Form Narrative Text
@ARTICLE{10.4108/eetismla.12836, author={I.B.N HimaBindu and Sarojamma B. and Haragopal V.V. }, title={BERTopic-Based Topic Modeling and Thematic Discovery in Long-Form Narrative Text}, journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning Applications}, volume={3}, number={1}, publisher={EAI}, journal_a={ISMLA}, year={2026}, month={6}, keywords={Textual data analytics, BERTopic, Topic modeling, topic probabilities, dimensionality reduction, HDBSCAN, UMAP}, doi={10.4108/eetismla.12836} }- I.B.N HimaBindu
Sarojamma B.
Haragopal V.V.
Year: 2026
BERTopic-Based Topic Modeling and Thematic Discovery in Long-Form Narrative Text
ISMLA
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eetismla.12836
Abstract
With the increasing amount of digital text data available today, the demand for Natural Language Processing techniques is growing significantly. Topic modeling is a NLP technique for automatically identifying topics existing in a large corpus of text and deriving hidden patterns represented by that document collection, hence facilitating improved decision-making. The purpose of the present work is to explore the major topics of the renowned book “Autobiography of a Yogi”, written by Paramahansa Yogananda, an eloquent orator and a profound spiritual master. To accomplish the study, the most popular neural topic model ‘BERTopic’ was employed on the book. As a result, a number of intriguing topics are extracted, that are especially useful for those researchers and scholars delving into the complexities of the book as well as those interested in spirituality, Indian philosophy, the life journey and teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda.
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